Shiet-collar



UNTTE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEO. W. HEARD, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHIRT-COLLAR.

Speccaton of Letters Patent No. 22,800, dated February 1, 1859'.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. HEARD, of Boston, in the county of Suolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Turn-Down Collars for Shirts; and

I do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specication and the accompanying drawings, of which Figure Vl, denotesa side view of a shirt collar constructed with my improvement. Fig. 2, shows a front view of it as it appears when turned down and with the cravat, neck tie, or ribbon applied to it. Fig. 3, is a horizontal section of the collar and tie. Fig. 4, is a top view, and Fig. 5, a vertical section showing the tie as it appears from the inside of the collar.

In the common mode of applying a neck tie or cravat to a shirt collar when on the neck of a person, the cravat has to be carried once, and generally twice entirely around the collar so as to encompass the same and the neck. W'ith what is usually termed, the

f turn down collar, such a mode of applying the cravat is not only disadvantageous to its appearance and set or t, butin summer or in very warm weather often causes too much warmthabout the neck of the wearer. By my improvement the neck tie or cravat is not carried wholly around the collar, and as a consequence need not be in length but about one half of that which would be required under circumstances as above mentioned.

In carrying out my improvement, the collar, A, (see Figs. l, 2, 3 and 4,) should be constructed with four slots or passages, a, b, c, el, formed through that part (6,) (termed the inner fold of it) which is to come into immediate contact with the neck while the collar is being worn by a person.

The part f, or outer fold of the collar, may be supposed to be that which is to be turned down on the line g, g, as shown in Figs. 2, 3, and 4.

lhile the two slots a, `b, or c, d may be placed at about an inch apart each external one, viz. a, or el, may be arranged at about the same distance from the next adjacent edge 71 of the part e, of the collar.

In applying the cravat B, to a collarso constructed, its two ends should first be passed respectively through the slots a and (l, and from the outer to the inner surface of t-he part e. Next, they should be re spectively inserted in or passed through the slots 7), c, and drawn asunder so as to pull the cravat through the four slots in a manner to cause the middle part of the cravat to rest against the front part of thel neck and cover the opening between the two ends ot' the collar. Finally, the two parts z', i, ot' the cravat should be brought forward and one lapped on the other or be tied with it in a knot 7o, as the wearer may desire. In this way the cravat while on the neck will have the appearance of having been carried twice entirely around the collar as the middle part of such cravat or that part of it which may extend between the slots a, cl, will cover the ends It, L.

I claim- As an improvement in the turn down collar, the construction of the same with four cravat slots or passages, a, Zi, c, el, arranged therein or with respect to the ends of the inner fold of the collar and for the purpose of receiving a cravat or tie ribbon substantially as specified.

I also claim the above described mode of applying or arranging' a cravat or neck tie in the collar constructed with the four slots or passages a, b, c, CZ, arranged within it or with respect to the ends of its inner fold, essentially as hereinbefore explained.

GEO. w. HEARD.

fitnesses ARTI-IUE NEILL,

F. P. HALE, JR. 

